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Dammn that time limit on editing. Gonna say, my next quite feasible project is to add a tractor PTO stub mounted and driven hydraulic pump. To boost hyd pressure to near 3000psi near 50% more than the David Brown's rated output. Prob spring a few dodgy hoses an such. but for near 50% more lifting capacity, well worth it. cheers m

Jim, Whitehouse hydraulics can supply a 1/2" ported 4 slice block with 2 directly connected "joysticks", for sub £600.00.(and I imagine 3/8" ud suffice) I will leave the legs on the old fashioned slices, and "drive" my log grab through a 12V operated 6 port valve, for about £100.00. I dont have a hydraulic extension function, though a glimmer yet grows in my eye. So. I could not justify the spend involved on your much tastier kit. However? for my eddification. I guess? the "servo" oil is "bled" off the main hydraulic supply through a pressure reducing regulator. Is this correct? marcus

Aha, he says! see page 24 in; http://www.huscointl.com/wp-content/pdf/5000.pdf Mechanical control of two spools Hmmm I should be able to fabricate a similar arrangment myself.

my basic wee trailer wit timber crane, has a cheap, (and leaky on one slice). 7 slice valve block. The 2 for the legs could stay on ord hyd "slices". I was however idly wondering as to the practicalities of fitting 2 digger type "joystick" controls, second hand off a digger. With the grab on a thumbswitch. Most of these are not directly connected to the slices,(I understand) so do they use low(er) pressure hyd oil to communicate with the valve block? And How complicated ud that conversation be? m

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We had one of the first range of IW 3500kg tipping trailers running on LR wheels. An indestructible PIG. I traded it, for a very fair price against another IW tipper about 10 year ago. this one is larger in size, therefore more useful, and running on smaller lighter axles wheels. Got it plated at 2000kg so as to be legal behind misc vans. tows like a dream, even behind the Octavia. A very very useful bit of kit, and has done us proud. the key is, that it is not much heavier than a flatbed, but hey, it TIPS! And has given ZERO bother. M

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PS All trees cut from the one side, drop in a horizontal cut, chop down the angled cut to make the gob and snick the back-cut away with the back of the bar. No measuring or looking/remeasuring throughout. Nor any wedges used. "just do it" I had to go for higher stumps as the bases were so twisted and skewed it was impossible to gob and fell accurately. The other problem I find is the poor tensile strength in the Lodgepole fibres, they tend to snap like pipe shanks. So "steering" them is a bit limited, and some are heavily leaning. cheers M The

An there is mair! Pic 1: Wot is done Pic 2, fell exactly where I wanted it (as they mostly do!) Pic 3 A Volunteer Beech tree Pic 4 15 to 20 year old volunteer Oaks (Jay propogated?) coming among the Birch Pic 5 = ditto as above Pic 6 is a small volunteer Beech tree Pic 7 Russian tyre flotation is good, with a full load on (& log trailer re axled by myself) Pic 8. 3 more well behaved tress going where they was sent. Pic 9. getting a swelled head here, but just look at that alignment Pic 10, a wee Beech Pic 11 just another view Pic 12? Pic 13 link-up achieved, with my other way in from the wet end

John, Except I am cutting my Lodgepole Pine for the "free" firewood, and it is my only exercise/hobby, being otherwise in a desk job. Plus it allows native specis trees to get a foothold. I would not reckon there to be any nett gain in "Harvesting" this rubbish. Regards Marcus

"Worth a bomb?" Why?, for what particular market. Is it because it is Lodgepole Pine, or what? Shitty, misshapen timber, and very prone to wind damage, i.e. tops snapping out. In my direct ownership experience , of this past 20 years. Why does anyone plant it, other than vigerous growth in rank moss. m

Erm! Found my invoice. £30.00 + Vat Yawn.

I will try and find the invoice and check, I could be wrong, but not by much. Remember the NI housing market collapsed ABSOLUTLY big time, with a knock on effect on rates chargable. Would also be one reason I dont be bothered buying my own digger. cheers m PS We did feed an water the Operator.

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I dont think a significent SFP comes into it, a small place, and the owner aint so stupid as to rob Peter to pay Paul. PS Each to their own, but "yer man" the French operator is, I suspect paying gie dear to change every 3000 hours.(seeing as forestry machinery is routinely expected to do 30,000 hours) The lower operating costs, and therefore hire-out costs, ONLY come with higher hour machines. I/we did have some down time, but the machine was absolutly new to the contractor. regards marcus

Well, loading per se, should be an "on the spot" activity. As for moving spoil, you could consider a small dump trailer, for behind your Alpine. Though a hired in site dumper will"eat" any tractor trailer combo. The brother could not understand why I hired in 2 or 3 (was it perhaps) 10 tonne site dumpers to build the Avenue in to this house. They kept 2 No. 13 tonne 360 diggers flat out busy, stripping topsoil , filling and placing hardcore. marcus ps A combo that works very well in work is an 80hp case tractor with a loader on, towing a 2.5 tonne digger. get to the site, the digger fills the big front bucket on the tractor, with the back of a sheaugh bucket generally. tractor then ferries an absolutly full bucket of spoil/rubbish whatever to the "hard" or a waiting lorry. Works a dream for lifting bonfires. but being replaced by a 3500kg digger on a 7500kg beavertail, supplemented by a plant trailer transported 640 Avant. cheers m

A decent long established farm based contractor. Running a HGV low-loader on DERV, recently put an 8 wheeler grab lorry on the go. Maintains all his own kit, and immaucatuly maintains, over the winter months. I did say "ish" btw, prob mid 30's by now. I do owe him for 3 days recently (der duck pond job!) cheers m

Stephen, simply better articulation, obviously! (with the bestest possible straight face) I noted the unusually high mounting point of the digger end of the main boom? Does this be standard fit with the 2-piece main boom. PS Eddie, longer as well as wider tracks. What is the calculated static psi? marcus

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The psychology of the group of competitive cyclists in any of these races fascinates me. Each member of the peloton KNOWS exactly his status within the "pack", and will defend the status of the pack against "outsiders" or rouge elements. And yes essentially "Gentlemens" rules apply. Until it filters down to the known, and accepted, best contenders. PS We got the "Giro de Italia" here in NI next weekend.

Very very unusual tyres on the rubber duck, to UK eyes, as they are wile wide. PS 90 Euro an hour, PLUS Vat. GULP! I get a skilled operator on a very well maintained 13 tonner, for £30.00(ish)/Hr + Vat. m

PS On the other hand I "gave life", or certainly a better opportunity, to 3 No volunteer seedlings today up the Moss. 2 Beech and one wee Oak (the Oak, almost certainly seeded by a Jay) Cut away the surrounding overshadowing shitty Lodgepole Pine.

A "Sally Bush" as it is euphemistically referred to here in NI. Break off a branch, toss it like a spear into a wet place, and IT WILL grow. Vigerously! However the Galleys of Venice when it was a sea power were built from Willow.(But not Goat Willow) Light and resilient, with a very good length to girth ratio, and easily worked (while not long cut) Perfect for essentially disposable fighting vessels. m

Assuming not towing behind a LR or Pick Up. Look at a 360 up to 5 or 6 tonne, or smaller. compared to OWT tractor mounted an absolute KING. And as said "the world is yer oyster" in terms of choice. For me leastwise a "no brainer" And it leaves the tractor free to do proper tractor stuff. m